How We Helped a Healthcare Clinic Reduce Their Google Ads CPA by 64% with a $240,000 Monthly Budget

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The Client Story

This case study highlights how we helped a healthcare clinic optimize their Google Ads campaign, reducing their cost per acquisition by 64% from $33 to only $12, and cost per click by 73%. This Colorado-based clinic specializes in personalized hormone implants for men and women, designed to naturally balance hormones by slowly releasing them through under-the-skin implants.

When the client came to us, their Google Ads campaigns were facing several challenges that limited their effectiveness and efficiency:

  • Ineffective Targeting: Irrelevant search terms indicated a need to refine keyword targeting and ensure ads reached the most relevant audience.
  • Suboptimal Campaign Structure: Improper campaign setup hampered efficiency and performance. Restructuring was essential for optimal targeting and budget allocation.
  • Low Quality Score: Quality score issues suggested ad copy and landing page relevance needed improvement to enhance user experience and ad rank.
  • Redundant Keywords: Duplicate keywords inflated costs and competed against each other. Elimination of duplicates streamlined the campaign and optimized budget usage.
  • Disorganized Structure: A disorganized campaign structure hindered effective management and performance evaluation. Reorganization was necessary to facilitate clarity and control.
  • High Cost per Click (CPC) and Cost per Acquisition (CPA): These metrics indicated a need to optimize bids, targeting, and campaign elements to acquire conversions at a more efficient cost.

This case study outlines the strategies we implemented to overcome these challenges, and highlights the steps we took to help them bring their average cost per click down by 73%.

Before Budai Media 

  • Ineffective keyword and targeting usage leading to high customer acquisition and cost per click. 

 

  • Low Quality Score indicating that the ad and landing page copy needs to be reworked/optimized.

 

  • No proper ad campaign strategy in place. 

After Budai Media

  • Clicks up by 300% in 9 months
  • Average CPA down from $33 to $12
  • Average CPC down by  in 9 months
  • Monthly cost only up by 10% despite major improvements in ad campaigns.

Average cost per click vs total number of ad clicks in 9 months

*The image above shows how we brought down the average cost per click while also increasing the average clicks per ad in 9 months

Comparison of Google Ads Campaign Performance after 9 months of working together

How we helped

One of the primary challenges our healthcare client faced was high customer acquisition costs and elevated cost per click (CPC). These issues often stem from targeting incorrect keywords, using ineffective ad copy, and not fully optimizing Google Ads settings.

Our client allocated a monthly budget of $240,000 for their Google Ads campaigns, which provided us with a robust framework to implement comprehensive changes.

Campaign Restructuring

We began by reorganizing the existing campaigns to ensure they were targeted more effectively and the budget was allocated more efficiently. This restructuring helped in focusing the ad spend on areas that provided the best returns, rather than spreading the budget too thinly across underperforming ads.

Two-Step Keyword Strategy

To improve our healthcare client’s Google Ads campaigns, we implemented a two-step approach focused on keywords. This strategy helped us cut costs and target potential customers more effectively.

The first step was to clean up negative keywords. We identified and removed irrelevant search terms that were wasting budget and not delivering the right traffic. This process helped ensure that our ads were seen only by people who were actually interested in what our client offers, improving the overall reach and effectiveness of the campaigns.

After dealing with negative keywords, we moved on to optimizing the remaining keywords. Our team analyzed and selected high-performing keywords that were likely to attract leads genuinely interested in our client’s services. We then used these keywords to fine-tune our campaigns, making sure the ads appeared to potential customers actively searching for hormone therapy solutions.

This two-step keyword strategy made our ad spend more efficient, helping us attract better leads and reduce unnecessary costs.

Creating Effective Ad Content

Once we had the right keywords and knew who we were targeting, we focused on crafting the ad content, which included writing engaging ad copy and using ad extensions effectively.

Engaging Ad Copy: We wrote clear and direct ad copy that addressed the specific needs and interests of our potential customers. This approach helped make the ads more relevant and appealing, encouraging more people to click through.

Using Ad Extensions: We also added several types of ad extensions to provide extra information and make the ads more useful. These included site links to important pages, callouts to highlight key benefits, and structured snippets to summarize services quickly. These extensions helped make our ads more informative, giving potential customers more reasons to engage.

By combining engaging ad copy with useful ad extensions, we crafted ads that were not only attention-grabbing but also filled with valuable information tailored to our audience’s needs. This method improved our overall ad performance by making the ads more effective at turning viewers into leads.

Strategic Bid Management

Leveraging automation and data-driven insights, we implemented a sophisticated bid management strategy. This approach ensured that our bids were competitive, yet cost-effective, maximizing the client’s return on investment by adjusting bids based on real-time campaign performance data.

Conclusion 

This case study demonstrates the impact of our targeted Google Ads optimizations. By refining keywords and enhancing ad content, we boosted clicks by 300% and reduced cost per acquisiton from $33 to $12 (by 64%), and costs per click by 73%, with only a 10% increase in budget. These changes not only improved efficiency but also significantly enhanced the effectiveness of the campaigns, proving the value of a strategic and data-driven approach in digital advertising.

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